Bald Eagle Reading Passage

1st Grade Social StudiesAmerican Symbols3 pages

About this worksheet

The bald eagle is not really bald, and this short 1st grade passage starts from that fact. Students read that Americans chose the bird long ago to stand for freedom and strength, and that it appears on some coins and money. Three questions ask what kind of animal it is, the two colors of its feathers, and where else you can see it. Last, students circle the eagle next to a brown bear and a red robin. An answer page closes the three pages, and the sheet links to the C3 Framework indicator D3.1.K-2.

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Curriculum objectives covered

D3.1.K-2

โ€œGather relevant information from one or two sources while using the origin and structure to guide the selection.โ€

Questions 1 to 3 send students back to the passage for each answer, including the brown and white feathers and the coins.

What's inside this worksheet

Read and Learn

A paragraph beside a cartoon eagle explains that the bird gets its name from the white feathers on its head against its brown body, and that it stands for freedom and strength.

What Did We Learn

Students answer three questions from the text: what kind of animal the bald eagle is, which two colors its feathers are, and a sentence completion about seeing it on some American coins or money, shown next to a picture of a quarter.

Find the Symbol

Students circle the bald eagle in a row of three pictures, next to a brown bear and a red robin.

How teachers use it

Read aloud

Read the first three sentences and stop at "It is not really bald!" Ask students why it might have that name before you read on.

Coin show

Bring in a few quarters when you do question 3. Some quarters show the eagle and some do not, and students like checking which kind they have.

Support group

The Find the Symbol row works for students who cannot yet write the answers. The robin is the distractor that catches a few, since it is also a bird.

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